It’s About the Dilaudid
So when a nurse calls you for a patient request and begins with “It’s about the Dilaudid” you generally expect the conversation to go one way. I was therefore so surprised that a patient...
So when a nurse calls you for a patient request and begins with “It’s about the Dilaudid” you generally expect the conversation to go one way. I was therefore so surprised that a patient...
Finished USMLE Step 3, found this welcoming committee camped out on my lawn ready to party…
A patient is described who sustained the first reported colonic explosion during colonoscopic polypectomy. Mannitol solution was used for bowel preparation, and the colon was completely clean. During snare removal of a cecal polyp...
[Anaesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii] “fabricated his results in at least 172 published studies” … British anesthesiologist John Carlisle, found that the odds of the data being generated experimentally [were] on the order of 1×10^30 …...
“I was literally standing in the drug-rep spot begging for a minute of this doctor’s time, like a cocker spaniel begging for a leftover piece of meat from the table … It was like...
Hgb electrophoresis confirmed a putative thalassemia diagnosis I made last week on person presenting with microcytic anemia and, after some digging around the family history, a “half-Sicilian” mother. At last all those USMLE ding-dong...
This Arch Int Medicine article was quoted widely and contained this interesting statement: Naturally occurring radiation is higher at the altitudes of commercial air flights because of the greater proximity to the sun
Been a while since an update. Matched into Psych in CPMC in San Francisco. More to follow…
Some treat him with contempt and disgust, usually the ones who have been directly involved in antiabortion activities. They hate all abortion except for their special case. One even said they should all be...
Half of the [United States] insured population uses virtually no health care at all. The 80th percentile uses only $3,000 [the 95th percentile has] only $11,487 in costs. It’s the 99th percentile, the people...